Beyond demolishing a building and terrorizing a city

There is no one in the world who knows as well as the Palestinians the importance of the “home” for the family and its members, with all the social, psychological and material connotations implied by the concept of “building”, “home” and “home”. The wars that do not stop, to build a life that embodies his steadfastness and survival and befits him and his humanity that the occupation wants to usurp.

All of this is understandable to us and the occupiers as well, but does the lust for killing and the desire for revenge justify stripping a massive military campaign of fifty military vehicles, and hundreds of soldiers backed by the Air Force, drones and advanced technology, which are capabilities sufficient to occupy a large city, just to demolish or sabotage the building of the captive Islam Al-Faroukh’s family? By making it unsuitable for housing his family and neighbors?

Apparently, the matter is contrary to political and military logic and all the rules of justice. It is inconceivable that a country shouts its horns day and night about the Iranian nuclear threat and the long-range "Khyber" and "Al-Fattah" missiles, and conducts continuous maneuvers in preparation for multi-front wars, spending its military energies on continuing to pursue Palestinian youth in The alleys of villages and camps, abuse of workers and farmers, protection of settlers when they burn crops and steal livestock, and demolish Palestinian homes as if they were uranium enrichment facilities.

From a legal point of view, these brutal policies represent a fundamental and flagrant violation of all principles of justice, such as the principle of "personality of punishment", represented in limiting punishment to the person against whom the accusations are proven, and it cannot be inflicted on anyone else, even his relatives and family members. These barbaric penalties also contradict the principle of "judicial punishment", which stipulates that no punishment may be imposed unless an explicit legal text is mentioned in it and the decision was issued by a specialized judicial body. Decisions to demolish Palestinian homes are carried out by officers in the occupation army and are implemented with the approval of the Minister of Defense. These are penalties that have nothing to do with the logic of the state of law and institutions. Rather, they are brutal practices inspired by the traditions of past centuries and the narratives of the Torah written by wild imagination.

Israel relies in its implementation of house demolition penalties on the mandatory emergency regulations that are still applied in the occupied Palestinian territories, and they represent an ugly and disgraceful colonial legacy for Britain and the occupying state, which the West still views as an oasis of democracy in our Middle Eastern deserts, although all facts confirm that the continued application of two systems Two distinct legal entities in the same geographical area, and for a long and extended period of time, is the clearest expression of the system of separation and racial discrimination (apartheid) associated with the colonial occupation.

Although the international and regional media view the permissibility of the city of Ramallah from the angle of its relationship to the status of this city as a center for the PA’s institutions and leaders, and what this represents in terms of provocation to the PA and disregard for its existence, this should not prevent us from seeing the full picture in terms of the operation being part of the comprehensive attack that is taking place. The government of fascist extremism in Israel wages it against everything that is Palestinian for a number of internal and external reasons. On the Israeli internal level, the campaign aims to restore the image of force, and to send messages of reassurance to the Israeli public, who no longer trust its government's ability to provide security, and to prove that Israel's long hand is capable of reaching any place at any cost, and among the reasons that push Israel to carry out such operations As well as keeping the Israeli public attached to security and military challenges and risks, and the occupying state's disavowal of any political entitlements by deluding the world that Israel faces existential threats.

For the Palestinians, the process carries a number of messages: the first of which is the consolidation of the principle of Israeli deterrence, which is based on paying the entire Palestinian people the price of their support for and glorification of the resistance. His decision and actions, demolishing their homes and restricting their lives in every way, including work and travel permits, thus creating a conviction among large groups of people that the resistance is a burden on them and is not a means to achieve their goals, nor is it a lever for their national program.

This operation is part of the political and military offensive aimed at implementing the project to resolve the conflict by force of iron and fire, not through negotiations, and therefore it is a link in the series of invasions, daily killings and looting of Palestinian lands, keeping the Palestinians all the time under the blows, chasing the results of the aggression, and thinking of saving themselves and their children. .

Israel realizes that this operation, like all other operations of invading cities, carrying out executions, arrests, demolitions, and even closing institutions with red wax, embarrasses and weakens the authority and shows it incapable of protecting its people. Israel concludes it with international and regional parties, and even with the Authority itself, as happened in the Aqaba and Sharm El-Sheikh meetings. But Israel aims behind this to send other messages and achieve clear political goals, as it says to the Palestinian Authority in the language of fire and bullets: If you, the Authority, do not take the initiative to curb and prevent the resistance, arrest the resisters and collect weapons, then the Israeli army will carry out this task itself, regardless of the results. . This is part of continuous pressure on the PA to weaken it and reduce its role to a mere security agent and barrier between the occupying state and the Palestinian people, and not the nucleus of a Palestinian national project.

The Ramallah operation, which resulted in the injury of dozens of citizens, and widespread confrontations that included several neighborhoods in the city and its surroundings, did not pass easily and smoothly as planned, but witnessed heroic resistance, albeit spontaneous, with limited and primitive means, and because it will not be the first nor the last, it becomes the duty of all forces The Palestinian bodies should prepare for how to deal with similar and expected upcoming operations, instead of issuing ready and prepared statements of denunciation and treason in advance.